Los Angeles’ Griffith Park is a massive, mountainous, wild oasis in the middle of the city’s dense urban sprawl. Its real and cinematic history is pure joy to explore.

George Gobel was one of the Hollywood types who answered his country’s call in 1942. At the time, he was a little-known ...

Many decades before Westworld and Firefly thought to combine sci-fi and Western elements, this pioneering serial film brought ...

Stories of cowboys and the old west grew in popularity fueled first by radio, then early movies and finally TV starring a ...

The first singing cowboy of the movies, Gene Autry, was one of America’s most popular stars. As the Texas native sang "Back ...

Indian Canyon and Gene Autry Trail are now open at the Whitewater wash in Palm Springs. The important traffic arteries had ...

Gene Autry Trail is now open at the Whitewater wash in Palm Springs. Indian Canyon remains closed as of Tuesday morning. The important traffic arteries had been closed for days due to strong winds, ...

Palm Springs police reopened North Indian Canyon Drive through the Whitewater Wash on Monday afternoon, a few hours after they did the same with Gene Autry Trail. Both roads had been closed Sunday ...

That left all of Palm Springs' roads through the wash back open; a closure on North Gene Autry Trail had been lifted Saturday. But as has often been the case in recent weeks, the good news may not ...

“As a kid, I loved the Westerns, because I grew up riding horses in Louisiana on the plantation, and seeing those old cowboys like Gene Autry, playing the acoustic guitar while riding a horse ...